My name is Chris Lee and it is my personal mission to bring awesome
things into this world.

I am a cross-culture geek-otaku, a connoisseur of oddities and a
product of prolonged exposure to fiction. I am an artist and a
gamer, and I hold deep passions for both. More than anything, I am
a creator; I enjoy constructing ideas and giving them life through
art, writing, or roleplay. As such, it is my personal
mission to bring awesome things into this world, and because of
that I am driven by a craving for success.

Despite that, I am not a particularly deep person (at least, I
don't like to think that I am). One might call me eccentric or
whimsical. I enjoy cheap thrills as much as I enjoy grand epics. I
make big deals out of little issues and take little issue with big
deals. I can get enthusiastic and possibly wax poetic about the
most inane, trivial things. It's also worth noting that I am
notoriously perverted, a trait not-at-all hidden by my choice of
artwork. Don't worry, I can distinguish fiction from reality,
otherwise I wouldn't be here.

**DISCLAIMER**
The Personality matrix will tell you that I am "More Experienced In
Love". DO NOT BELIEVE IT. My confession is as follows:

I have not "dated" before, in a manner of speaking. I had a
girlfriend once seven years ago, and nothing else since. I am
pained but not shamed to admit that I am romantically starved. More
than anything, I want someone to share my mind and heart with.

In a word, "climbing". In a few more words, "climbing a decidedly
jagged wall that does not want me to climb it". I'm not going to
tell myself that things don't suck right now, but I'll be damned if
I'm not doing everything in my power to climb out of it.

I still live at my parents' house due to circumstance, not by
choice, and I remain here by their good mercy. I'm unemployed, but
do freelance work at home just to make a buck. I've done work for
Lab Zero Games as a contract cleanup artist for their indie 2D
fighter, Skullgirls, and I also do art by
commission. If I'm not drawing or working, I'm probably playing
games or watching anime.

I am a freelance illustrator with a focus in character design (and
a penchant for nonsensically erotic costuming), pinups, and game
art asset creation. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree for
Computer Animation, and am trained traditionally in the art of
animation. On our spare time, my brother and I make amateur
animations that we upload to Youtube under the studio name
"SugarPunch Design Works". We've gathered quite a following, much
to our surprise.

Beyond that, I am an avid gamer. I especially enjoy fighting games and
RPGs (my tastes lean
towards eastern RPGs). I play fighting games at a "hobbyist" level;
more dedicated than a 'casual' player, but not as hardcore as a
tournament-level player. I have played League of Legends profusely
for the past year and a half, and it is the only strategy game in
which I claim some level of competence. I also play tabletop games like
Dungeons and Dragons with
zeal, though I have not had a live session in the longest
time.

Though I have made no commercial attempts, I am also told that I am
a skilled writer, by more than one person. I feel that writing goes
hand in hand with character design, and I hope for a chance to put
these talents together.

I maintain a hairstyle that could only be described as
'curtainlike'. Purposely cut to be uneven, it is long in the front
and unkempt just about everywhere else, but manages some odd sense
of neatness. My hair is thick, voluminous, and easy to shape with
minimal effort or upkeep. It is a point of pride for me to admit
that more than one girl has expressed jealousy for my hair.

"Why is he in a suit?"
I make it a point to dress nicely in social occasions, when I can
afford to. I am keenly aware that I'm not entirely pleasant to look
at, so the least I can do is make the effort to dress nicer than I
look. Also, I dislike wearing denim, and you will never find me in
a pair of jeans.

"Holy crap what's wrong with your fingers."
Only slightly exaggerated, but my fingers do draw some degree of
attention. There is hair growing on the first set of metacarpals
beyond the knuckles, and this seems to shock people when they
notice them. I am... actually somewhat embarrassed by this fact,
but I make no effort to shave my fingers.

I'll admit, I'm not a very literary person. The words "Have you
read?" are lost on me more often than not. I've read more comics
than actual novels, but there are a scant few that I've actually
enjoyed. I'll list them below in no particular order.

Tales from Underground (Dostoyevsky)
Hellsing (Manga, Kouta Hirano)
The Book of Five Rings (Musashi)
Sin City (Comic, Frank Miller)

I don't watch a lot of TV, and in the rare cases that I do, my
favorite shows are usually cancelled.

I've been somewhat disconnected from mainstream music, for various
reasons. I usually enjoy soundtracks from my favorite games or
anime, but I also enjoy classic rock. Here's another completely
scrambled list of my favorite bands and composers:

Food... oh boy. I don't have any particular favorites, but I do
enjoy just about everything with rare few exceptions. If I had to
pick out favorites, I'd have to go with the rich, succulent flavor
of gourmet seafood, or the powerful, filling flavor of good
barbecue.

And because video
games are a large part of my hobbies, here's a rough list of my
favorites below:

Music
Silence disturbs me. Music moves me. The absence of motion is
unsettling.

Fiction
I'd normally single out 'anime' or 'games', but the truth is I just
want to have some fiction to fall into. It doesn't have to be a
grand sweeping epic, it can be simple and fun; it doesn't matter,
as long as there's something to experience and explore.

Companionship
I don't consider myself extroverted, nor do I consider myself
introverted. All the same, being all alone is a frightening,
frightening thought. I often get depressed when there's absolutely
no one in the house except myself.

Art
This might file under the 'Fiction' section, but it has more to do
with my own ability to create art rather than to experience it. As
mentioned above, I love to create. It comes together with the other
entries above: I love to absorb fiction, coalesce them into
thought, create art, and share my creations with people.

The Internet
Well, okay it's not as bad as it sounds. I love to express myself,
but I'm not really at liberty to go out into the streets and yell
my heart out. The Internet is my platform to the rest of the world,
to share my art with. It's actually more accurate to say "I eat and
sleep in San Francisco, but I live on the
internet".

No eloquent paragraphs this time, my thoughts aren't so clear-cut
to me that I can write essays about them.

Much of my head is buried in games and fiction. If I'm not
pondering story ideas or ludicrously sexy character designs, I'm
probably thinking about game design, or some way to merge the two
into a cohesive narrative experience. A lot of time is spent
thinking about how to bridge the gap between Western game design
tropes and Eastern game design tropes to make one multicultural
awesome mega-game. The few times I'm not thinking of games or
stories, I'm probably thinking about the future, which isn't always
a positive experience. If nothing else, I also spend time thinking
of how to make more money, or of my next self-appointed project,
assuming I'm not already on one.

Back in high school, I used to drape my hair over one eye. I wasn't
emo or anything, I just wanted to have cool anime hair. Then emo
people stole it from me, so I had to resort to more reasonable
hair. As a result, my left eye is actually more nearsighted than my
right eye. No joke, it's on my prescription.

Fun Fact: you actually can see through a curtain of hair over your
eyes. The hair is close enough such that you can see between the
strands.